Library Quotes · Page 40

I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them.

— Emma Thompson

I don't think if you're serious about literature your library is filled with award-winning books.

— Andrew Wylie

There are probably a few library fines I haven't paid yet, but I'm a pretty clean-cut guy overall.

— Al Yankovic

“The library is the only place where I don’t have to try to fit in. It’s effortless.”

— Donna Cooner

How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail!

— Alexander Pope

To use it should be as natural ... as to use the trolley when one needs transportation.

— John Cotton Dana

If I was a book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by all different…

— Cornelia Funke

Film, television and to a certain extent, theater are modern day libraries.

— David Strathairn

I sometimes get up at night when I can't sleep and walk down into my library and open one of my books…

— Ray Bradbury

It's because of libraries that books like mine get recommended to book clubs and avid readers, who in turn pass them onto…

— Jodi Picoult

“For one crazy moment he had the notion of a vanished tribe of librarians, lost in the deep underground caverns of the…

— Lavie Tidhar

If I were not a king, I would be a university man; and if it were so that I must be a…

— King James I

I went to work at the library. I know that sounds crazy but I didn't know where else to go. Besides, at…

— Christopher Pike

“The library serves as a gathering place for friends who share the love of books. It further serves as a resource for…

— Kristen Ashley

That's exactly how I want you to feel. When you finish this book, I want you to be filled with curiosity. I…

— Clare B. Dunkle

The idea of education has been so tied to schools, universities, and professors that many assume there is no other way, but…

— Louis L'Amour

“I observed on most collected stones the imprints of innumerable plant fragments which were so different from those which are growing in…

— Antoine De Jussieu

I can't get it out," she said. "Just pull at it." "It hurts. It's throbbing." "Pull harder." "I can't! It's truly stuck.…

— Lisa Kleypas

I couldn't help thinking that if I, by pure chance, had found a whole universe in a single unknown book, buried in…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

How do you explain to somebody who doesn't understand that you don't build a library to read. A library is a resource.…

— Howard Jacobson

At the time of Caliph Omar's invasion of Egypt, the Arab officer on duty in the destruction of the library of Alexandria…

— Nils Kjaer

When a child is born, I once explained to the kids, some dads lay down bottles of wine for them that will…

— Mordecai Richler

There were two kinds of students who liked the library: those who devoured one book after another and those who savored the…

— Rachel Simon

“I’m completely library educated. I’ve never been to college. I went down to the library when I was in grade school in…

— Ray Bradbury

Libraries are the center of our lives. There's no use going to a university if you don't live at the library.

— Ray Bradbury

“What about study hall? Shouldn't I go to the library? "What for, Ms. Lord?" Mr. anderson said. "You're with me”

— Ilsa J. Bick

The idea of a library full of books, the books full of knowledge, fills me with fear and love and courage and…

— Elizabeth McCracken

I have a couple of thousand books in my personal library. Choosing a favorite is next to impossible. But I do love…

— Tim Gunn

I've been talking about the centrality of libraries in our information society for a while now.

— Matthew Lesko

In Liverpool, where I live, we have a brilliant library which has been refurbished, and I like going there.

— Shaun Evans

I love getting out the house because writing is such a solitary business that even being at the library makes me feel…

— Jane Green

One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library..

— Bell Hooks

I see libraries and librarians as frontline soldiers in the war against illiteracy and the lack of imagination.

— Neil Gaiman

“Picture books build readers, Mr. Leon. Two missing books from our collection is like two missing bricks from a cathedral.”

— Kristin O'Donnell Tubb

“A few books well chosen, and well made use of will be more profitable than a great confused Alexandrian library.”

— Thomas Fuller

The library takes me away from my everyday life and allows me to see other places and learn to understand other people…

— Gloria Estefan

Each time one of the medicine men dies, it's as if a library has burned down.

— Mark Plotkin

I always have to go out to work even if it's just a desk somewhere or an office or the British Library.

— David Morrissey

If you want to be a reference librarian, you must learn to overcome not only your shyness but also the shyness of…

— S. R. Ranganathan

A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place…

— Norman Cousins